Month: August 2019

Credit: Disney Parks & Resorts Disney’s planned superhero-themed areas of their parks now have a name: Avengers Campus. The themed “lands” will be coming to Disney California Adventure and Disneyland Paris. “When guests visit Avengers Campus, they will become part of an interconnected, global story that spans from California to Paris to Hong Kong with

Credit: Disney Publishing Worldwide Credit: Disney Publishing Worldwide Press Relase This evening at D23 Expo, Ricky Strauss, president, Content & Marketing for Disney+ and Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts announced One Day at Disney, a spectacular collaboration between Disney Publishing Worldwide and Disney’s new streaming service.  The new, 224-page coffee table book and the documentary

Credit: The CW Actors Brandon Routh and Courtney Fort are being written out of  CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. First reported by Deadline, this news comes just one month after Routh was announced to be reprising his role as Superman in the upcoming “Crisis on Infinite Earths” crossover – in addition to his role as

Credit: Bianca Xunise Credit: SPX The nominations for the 2019 Ignatz Awards has been announced by the Small Press Expo. The Ignatz Award is SPX’s festival prize, recognizing outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning.  The award-winners will be decided upon from ballots issued to attendees of this year’s SPX on September 14 and 15 at

Credit: Valiant Entertainment RAI #1Written by DAN ABNETTArt by JUAN JOSÉ RYPCover A by JUAN JOSÉ RYPCover B by JUAN JOSÉ RYPCover C by ADAM POLLINABlank Cover Also AvailablePreorder Edition Cover by JOSÉ LADRÖNNWelcome to the 41st century: New worlds, new characters, new adventures.Valiant’s critically celebrated cyborg ronin named Rai embarks on a thrilling quest

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics Marvel has announced that November 20’s Star Wars #75 will be the series’ last issue. Star Wars is just a few issues into a new era set during the events of Empire Strikes Back with series writer Greg Pak and Phil Noto. Marvel’s Star Wars era launched in January

Duncan and his grandmother go deeper into the fight against a villain of Arthurian legend in this preview of September 18’s Once & Future #2. ONCE & FUTURE #2Price: $3.99Writer: Kieron GillenArtist: Dan MoraCover Artist: Dan MoraSynopsis: The McGuire family has held back supernatural threats for generations, but this time they messed up. As an

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics More details on Marvel’s planned Annihilation revival have been revealed in the publisher’s just-released November 2019 solicitations. Writer Matthew Rosenberg and artist Juanan Ramirez are starting things off with Annihilation: Scourge Alpha #1. Due out November 20, it follows a Nova-led superteam to investigate “something [that]

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics Marvel’s return to the year 2099 (teased during July’s Comic Con International: San Diego) has been unveiled in its November 2019 solicitations, which show four new one-shots – including one that brings Conan the Barbarian to the future. Things kick off with 2099 Alpha #1 from Nick Spencer and

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics “You are cordially invited to the wedding of Black Cat and Spider-Man!” That’s how the solicitation for the just-revealed Black Cat Annual #1 coming out this November begins. While they’ve been on-and-off-lovers for decades, making the relationship serious has been until now left to the imagination (that and 1991’s

Credit: Marvel Games Warlock of the New Mutants is the latest character to join Marvel’s Contest of Champions game.  The alien warrior of the Technarchy carries a whole host of moves to use in combat – all stemming from his shapeshifting techno-organic body. Here’s a graphic showing off exactly what Warlock is capable of. He’s

Credit: Marvel Comics Like last month Marvel Comics has released their November 2019 solicititations without an embargo, so here they are as we got them. Check out the gallery to see the covers and over the next hour we’ll be pairing the text with the images as usual… Check out all of Marvel’s new November

Credit: Dark Horse Comics Aliens Colonial Marines: Rising Threat #3Brian Wood (W), Werther Dell’Edera (A), Michael Atiyeh (C), Tristan Jones and Simon Gough (Cover), and Kyle Lambert (Variant Cover)On sale Nov 20FC, 32 pages$3.99OngoingGiven the lucky break of finding a mobile water drill rig, Olivia and the marines make their way through the alien-infested Katanga

Credit: Jenny Frison (DC) G. Willow Wilson Credit: Amber French Wonder Woman writer G. Willow Wilson has announced she will be exiting the DC title by the end of the year. Framing it as her own decision, Wilson said she is exiting the title to work on a “bucket-list-dream-project.” “Since I’ve been getting questions: Yes,

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics November’s Captain Marvel #12 will begin a new story arc in which Carol Danvers will become a “dark” reflection of herself as “The Last Avenger” (via CBR). Drawn by Lee Garbett, “The Last Avenger” will pit an apparently evil Captain Marvel against her fellow Avengers. It’s unclear exactly how Carol

Credit: Valerio Schiti/Rachelle Rosenberg (Marvel Comics) Credit: Before Columbus Foundation Marvel Comics’ Ms. Marvel Vol. 9: Teenage Wasteland has won one of 13 American Book Awards – and is the only comic book to receive the honor this year. Ms. Marvel Vol. 9 collects 2018’s Ms. Marvel #25 through #29 by writer G. Willow Wilson,

Credit: Marvel Comics J.C. Lee and Stan Lee Credit: s_bukley / Shutterstock.com J.C. Lee, the daughter of the late Stan Lee, claims that Marvel and its parent company, the Walt Disney Company, have “treated my father worse” than anyone. In an interview with TMZ, Stan Lee’s only child didn’t mince words on her feelings about

Credit: Simon & Schuster Frank Miller Ink has promoted Silenn Thomas to the position of CEO, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Frank Miller Ink is the production company of creator Frank Miller. Thomas has worked alongside Miller since serving as an associate producer on the film adaptation of Miller’s 300. Most recently, Thomas has been a co-executive

Jon Watts Credit: Ovidiu Hrubaru / Shutterstock.com Credit: Sony Pictures/Marvel Studios Jon Watts isn’t signed on to direct any further Spider-Man films and is being “heavily courted for other jobs”, according to Deadline. Watts signed one-picture deals for both Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home, although series star Tom Holland said in 2016 that

Credit: Greg Smallwood (Marvel Comics) Gerry Duggan Credit: Image Comics Marvel’s Fantastic Four have often traveled up and down Yancy Street, but now they’re living on it – setting up their new headquarters at 4 Yancy Street. That’s a fun little factoid, but moving past that, you have to wonder what a universally-known superhero team

Priyanka Chopra Jonas Credit: Denis Makarenko / Shutterstock.com Alita: Battle Angel director Robert Rodriguez will write, direct, and produce a new family-oriented superhero movie called We Can Be Heroes starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas, according to Deadline. No title for the reportedly in-development film has been revealed, but the announced plot revolves around a group of children coming

With Spider-Man: Velocity #1 due out August 28, Marvel have released all the non-retailer exclusive variants to the debut issue. In addition to the primary cover by Skan, there are variants by Adi Granov, Gabriele Dell’Otto, and Matthew Waite. MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN: VELOCITY #1 (of 5)DENNIS “HOPELESS” HALLUM (W) • EMILIO LAISO (A)Cover by SKANVariant Cover

Credit: Gabriel Picolo (DC Ink) Press Release DC announced today that TEEN TITANS: RAVEN, the fan-favorite young adult graphic novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kami Garcia (Beautiful Creatures) and popular Instagram artist Gabriel Picolo, will go back to press for a third printing. Originally released on July 2, the book will go

Credit: Josh Lynch Press Release JUST IN TIME FOR THE NEW YORK COMIC CON 2019…..The Daydream Theatre and TheatreLab NYC are proud to present DITKO, a play Written & Directed by Lenny Schwartz on October 1 & 2nd 2019 at 7:30pm Tickets: $15 in advance at Ovationtix.com and $20 at the door the location of TheatreLab is 357 WEST 36th STREET 3RD

Credit: DC Credit: Tony S. Daniel (DC) Spoilers ahead for this week’s Batman #77. Alfred Pennyworth is dead. Or at least, he appears to be dead. In Batman #77, Bane broke Alfred’s neck in front of Damian Wayne, fulfilling a promise that Alfred would die if any Bat-family member entered Gotham City. And the issue

Empty Man #1 variant Credit: Goni Montes (BOOM! Studios) Credit: Vanesa R. Del Rey (BOOM! Studios) Disney is moving forward with a movie adaptation of Cullen Bunn and Vanesa R. Del Rey’s The Empty Man, setting it for an August 7, 2020 release date, according to Variety. Iron Man 3‘s James Badge was announced in 2016

Credit: Lucasfilm The first trailer for Disney+’s The Mandalorian is set to debut Friday, August 23, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The trailer will debut as part of the D23 Expo. “After the stories of Jango and Boba Fett, another warrior emerges in the Star Wars universe,” reads Lucasfilm’s description of the show. “The Mandalorian

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics Three new creators have been added to Marvel Comics’ female superhero-focused Fearless anthology series. Alyssa Wong, Alti Firmansyah, and Marguerite Sauvage will all contribute to upcoming issues of Fearless. Wong and Firmansyah will join Fearless #3 with a Jubilee-centric story, while Sauvage will draw a story by previously-announced writer